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      TestFit Release - 5.0 - Generative Design

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      Highlights

      • TestFit Generative Design:
        We are excited to announce a major upgrade to TestFit with our new product, TestFit Generative Design. This powerful tool allows you to:
        • Rapid Solve Generation: Create thousands of design solutions within seconds, boosting efficiency and creativity.
        • Comprehensive Data Integration: Seamlessly pull data from web-based deals and presets, and local presets to enrich your solve list and designs.
        • Dynamic Variation: Automatically vary parameters and building locations to explore different solve variations tailored to your needs.
        • Targeted Filtering: Filter results to align with your specific goals, ensuring you achieve the best possible outcomes.
        • Metric-Based Sorting: Sort solutions based on your most important metrics, prioritizing what matters most to your projects.
        • Iterative Design Process: Generatively iterate on your site designs, incorporating easements and roads effortlessly.
        • Regenerate Similar Solves: Select a preferred solve and regenerate similar solves to refine and perfect your design approach.
        • Manual Configuration: Manually configure the site to incorporate your expert design knowledge and unique insights.

          This feature empowers you to design with unprecedented speed and flexibility, integrating generative and manual approaches to achieve the optimal solution for any project. 
      • Data Centers: TestFit can now quickly and accurately determine the feasibility of Data Centers with the ability to calculate energy requirements, benchmark against electrical availability, tabulate data hall and yard sizes as well as plan for multi-level developments. It has never been faster to iterate data center developments.
      • Additional Satellite View: A new satellite view is now available in TestFit, offering more up-to-date imagery and enhancing insight into your site. While it has a lower resolution than the existing view, users can easily toggle between both views to access the most current and detailed visual information for informed decision-making. This new view is provided by ESRI.
      •  Hover previews for sites now also show previews of tabulation data.
      •  Improved parking layout, particularly for drive aisles connecting distinct logical parking lots.

      Details

      • Changed the cut and fill underlay to have 50% opacity by default.
      • It's now possible to add verticals to garages with no high-density building attached to them.
      •  Enscape is no longer included with TestFit on Windows.
      •  Urban Planner users can now use the in-app bug reporting mechanism.

      Reported Issues & Bug Fixes:

      • Fixed NSM labels for tabulation on metric sites.
      • Fixed a crash that could occur when solving parking.
      •  The cut and fill legend is now hidden when earthwork opacity is 0 or when in a 3D view.
      • Removed empty buildings from garage-only presets and older files such as "Structured Parking".
      • Fixed z-fighting on garages with no high-density building.
      • Fixed non-HD garages footprint calculation.
      • Fixed possible failure to launch on Windows if multiple users were sharing a TestFit install on the same machine.
      • Fixed image layers being sized incorrectly.
      • Fixed site accesses preventing parking from being toggled between "surface" and "garage".
      • Fixed a crash that could occur when solving high density sites with invalid unit db configurations.
      • Fixed empty sites not containing setbacks.
      • Fixed surface parking being treated as a garage in high-density.
      • Improved multifamily mix on podium/wrap sites.
      • Added elevation labels to the clipboard screenshot.
      • Fixed unselected schemes blocking mouse interactions with elevation contour lines.
      • Fixed a crash that could occur when solving parking.
      • Fixed some rare parcels not being selectable for site creation.
      • Fixed garage column dimensions not refreshing correctly.
      • Fixed some elevators being detached from the building when using certain combinations of path widths.
      • Fixed the Garden Housing properties panel always showing the selected database as unsaved.
      • Removed the shape type dropdown for manually-placed warehouses.
      • Fixed context building not clipping correctly after moving a site.
      • Fixed child spaces failing to render in some circumstances.
      • Fixed a crash that could happen when rescaling images.
      •  Fixed a crash that could happen when solving low density sites.
      • Fixed ramps failing to be placed in some solves that could accomodate them.
      • Fixed CSV exports failing on MacOS.